Clothes-pin.



J. C. STRANGE.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION I'ILED MARJB, 1911.

Patented Aug. 12, 1913.

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JOHN C. STRANGE, 0F BENNINGTQN, KANSAS.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Speclflmtion of Letters Patent.

Application filed M81011 18, 1911.

Patented Aug. 12, 1913. Serial No. 615,313.

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN C. STRANGE, acitizen of the United States, residing at Bennington, in the county ofOttawa and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements inClothes-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

An object'of the invention is to provide a clothes pin for releasablyattaching clothes to clothes lines for the purpose of drying the same.

Among other'features, the invention embodies an integral piece of wirebent to form clip members adapted to engage and handles spaced apart andadapted to be pressed together with a spring integrally formed on thesaid piece of wire and disposed between the said clip members and thesaid handles so that when the said handles are pressed therefrom beingshown in dotted lines, thesaid clip being positionedmo releasably holdsaid clothes on the clothes line. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectionalview. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the views, I provide an integral piece ofwire 10 having an end portion 11 thereof bent laterally to the wire 10,the said end portion having its extreme outer end 12 bent laterally tothe end portion 11, after which the wire 10 is bent or looped uponitself to form a clip 13. The wire is then again bent upon itself toform a handle 14, the said wire in this instance being extended in adirection opposite to the direction of formation of the clip 13, itbeing understood that one side of the bandle 14 is a continuation of oneside of the clip 13'. The wire 10 after being bent to form the handle 14is coiled at the inner ends of the clip 13 and handle 14 to form aspring 15, the said spring being disposed between the clip 13 and handle14 and extendinglaround the end portion 11 of the wire.

ow after the spring 15 has been formed the piece of wire 10 is bent'rearwardly adjacent one side of the handle 14 and is then bentbackwardly and looped to form a second handle 16 similar to the handle14, with the outer or free ends of the handles 14 and 16 normally spacedapart. The wire 10 is then bent to form a second clip 17, similar to theclip 13 and after the clip 17 has been formed the other end portion 18of the wire 10 is bent laterally to pass through the spring 15,,

the extreme other end 19 of the said wire being bentlaterally to the endportion 18 and disposed oppositely to the end 12 so that the said ends12 and 19 engage the Wire 10 immediately adjacent the sprmg 15 and onboth sides thereof to fornrbearing members or fulcrums with the saidhandles 14 and 16 pressing upon the end portions of the wire at theirinner ends. so that when the bandies 14 and 16 are pressed together, theclips 13 and 17 will be moved apart at their free ends. It will,therefore, be seen that the ends 12 and 19 primarily hold the entiredevice together, in that they engage the inner ends of the handles andform the bearing, members or fulcrums upon which the handles 14 and 16operate. It will be further seen that by providing the spring 15,-

the clip members 13 and 17 when pressure on the handles is released,will return to normal position. Suitable corrugations 20 are formed onthe inner sides of the clips 13 and 17 so that when the clips aremounted on a clothes line to releasably attach clothes thereto, thecorrugations formed on the clips will result in the clips more securelybinding the clothes to the clothes line.

Having thus fully described the invention, What I claim as new, is 7 Asa new article of manufacture, an integral piece of wire having an endthereof bent laterally and again bent laterally and looped to form aclip, the said wire being then bent to form ahandle, one side of whichis a continuation of the clip, the said wire being then coiled aroundthe first mentioned end of the wire to form a spring, n-'ith the saidspringarranged between the clip and the handle, after which the saidwire is bent beneath the handle to form'a second,

handle having the free end thereof normally spacedfrom the firstmentioned handle, the said wire being then bent to pass adjacent theother end of the said springand looped to form a second clip, afterwhich the said wire is bent to extend through the said spring, with thesecond end of the wire bent laterally adjacent the spring, the saidlaterallybent ends of the wire being adapted to engage the said handlesatv their inner 10 ends and form bearing surfaces for the hamdies whenthe said handles are pressed together to move the said clips apartagainst the action of the said spring.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JoHN o. STRANGE.

Witnesses:

C. S. STRANGE, L. A. STRANGE.

